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Quote from: Lauda on September 28, 2017, 12:14:57 PM

If you download a wallet that is compromised, it could lead to a compromise of your system including all your wallets and online credentials. The short answer is: "No.". Bitcointalk provides no safety guarantee of any kind FYI.

I've been waiting to see the first scam airdrop that uses a wallet to compromise the user's system. It is definitely something people should be aware of. Especially with how anxious people are to rush into anything that promises free money. It is only a matter of time before it happens. Stay safe!

Quote from: VackFromOhm on September 28, 2017, 12:43:40 PM

1. Use on online wallet

If possible, this is a great option. Although that requires you to trust the exchange, at least there is nothing at stake.

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As the rest of the people here have said, the danger mostly lies in downloading a wallet from the coin's site and getting infected with malware. Sometimes your antivirus won't catch bad stuff, either. Your safest options are-

1. Use on online wallet
2. Do a damn good amount of research in the project and hope you're right
3. Use a Virtual Machine

I see a lot of people use all three of these methods to keep themselves safe, and I use all three myself. If I'm personally on a project and helping out, I'll trust the wallet. If it's a small airdrop that allows online digital wallets, I'll use that. Worst case scenario I boot up my VM and download some malware!

Virtual Machines aren't completely safe, and some malware could get into your system, but it does a pretty good job of letting you sleep at night and acts as a filter for preliminary problems. Good luck.

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No software can be compromised , just look for airdrops where you can use an online wallet like myetherwallet.

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Quote from: AdolfinWolf on September 28, 2017, 12:30:25 PM

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I don't think so...
If you say there's malicious sofware in wallet, your anti virus should take care of that.

No. Antivirus only works for trojans / keyloggers / R.A.T tools that have already been detected ( eg, signature is known ).

This is not the case / could not the be the case with most/ some of these compromised wallets, if there is a decent malware programmer behind it. and your antivirus might not pick it up.

It's safer to just not use anything that is not scanned thorougly..

it's the man of breaking bad?

JasonXIII

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I don't think so...
If you say there's malicious sofware in wallet, your anti virus should take care of that.

Have you ever heard of backdoors in softwares?

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I don't think so...
If you say there's malicious sofware in wallet, your anti virus should take care of that.

No. Antivirus only works for trojans / keyloggers / R.A.T tools that have already been detected ( eg, signature is known ).

This is not the case / could not the be the case with most/ some of these compromised wallets, if there is a decent malware programmer behind it. and your antivirus might not pick it up.

It's safer to just not use anything that is not scanned thorougly..

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If you download a wallet that is compromised, it could lead to a compromise of your system including all your wallets and online credentials. The short answer is: "No.". Bitcointalk provides no safety guarantee of any kind FYI.

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Apologies if this is a dumb question or been asked preiovus but I need to know the answer. Can airdrop coins be malicious? I ask because there seem to be a lot of new airdrops going around right now and just want to

protect myself. Obviously only use links that are https and not http for safety but I am curious about the coins themselves. Can they screw up your MEW? Or could they possibly mess that whole one ETH account up? Thanks

for helping out a newbie in this space

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